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	Walker Percy
		Walker Percy was born on May 28, 1916, in Birmingham, Alabama, the eldest son of Leroy Pratt and Martha Susan Phinizy Percy.
		The Percy family was a wealthy one with a respected position among the elite of the region.
		Percy's books continue to be popular, and his reputation as one of the finest American--and Southern--novelists of the second half of the twentieth century seems firmly established.
	www.lib.unc.edu /rbc/percy/percy.html (647 words)

	Walker Percy: A Life
		Although Walker Percy rarely spoke about his family history (see the Appendix), he knew that it was both long and complicated.' His sense of it was deeply embedded in his consciousness, because certain prominent last names were often repeated as first or middle names in subsequent generations of Percys--a common feature of Southern nomenclature.
		Walker Percy's brother, Billups Phinizy ("Phin") Percy, for example, has a daughter, Melissa Phinizy Percy, who is married to a second cousin, Bolling Phinizy Spalding, and their son is named Phinizy Percy Spalding.
		Walker Percy's father, LeRoy Pratt Percy, son of Walker and Mary Pratt DeBardeleben Percy, was born on June 23, 1889, and grew up conscious of the great expectations attached to the only male in a leading Birmingham family.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/s/samway-percy.html (4606 words)

	Walker Percy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Walker Alexander Percy, a writer who was raised in Greenville, Mississippi, was born to Leroy and Martha Percy on May 28, 1916, in Birmingham, Alabama.
		Walker Percy studied chemistry at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
		Walker Percy was forced to leave Bellevue to recuperate from pulmonary tuberculosis.
	www.knowsouthernhistory.net /Culture/Literature/walker_percy.htm (553 words)

	Walker Percy: Resources on the Web
		Walker Percy: Diagnostician of the Modern Malaise, by Carl E. Olson.
		Walker Percy and Southern Literature, by Veronica Makowsky.
		Walker Percy and the Christian Scandal, by Marion Montgomery.
	www.ratzingerfanclub.com /Percy (389 words)

	Walker Percy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Percy was born in Birmingham, Alabama, into a distinguished Mississippi Protestant family whose past illuminaries had included congressmen and Civil War heroes.
		Walker and his two younger brothers, Phin and Roy, then moved to Greenville, Mississippi, where his bachelor uncle William Alexander Percy, lawyer, poet, and autobiographer, became their guardian and adopted them.
		Conversations with Walker Percy.Lawson, Lewis A., and Victor A. Kramer, eds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walker_Percy (864 words)

	The Homesick Homeless (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The major events of Walker Percy's life are quickly set forth: the depression and suicide of his father; his mother's death two years later; his adoption by a cousin, "Uncle" Will Percy; medical training, contracting TB, and the decision not to practice medicine; marriage; conversion to Catholicism.
		Percy describes the story of a character in one of his unpublished novels as "the progress of the neurotic toward a dreadful grey neutrality from which he cannot escape." Percy is a genius of bleakness.
		In the novels Percy combines this moral zeal with the penetrating eye of the pathologist, a wit both sharp and harsh, a dazzlingly accurate ear for dialogue, a zany sense of humor, and a sense of both the dailiness and the apocalyptic possibilities of human life.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9305/reviews/finn.html (1243 words)

	Walker Percy Doctor of the Soul, by Gregory Wolfe
		According to Walker Percy, one of the preeminent American novelists of the late twentieth century, there are billions of aliens living on planet Earth, creatures who look and talk and act just like you or me. These aliens did not arrive on spaceships, nor do they possess strange, magical powers.
		Percy was particularly fond of the Catholic existentialist Gabriel Marcel, who coined the phrase homo viator—man as pilgrim or wayfarer.
		While Percy's Catholic humanism went against the grain of the prevailing cultural trends of his time, his writing was so powerful, funny, and poignant that he gained the admiration of many readers.
	www.godspy.com /reviews/Walker-Percy-Doctor-of-the-Soul.cfm (1555 words)

	Walker Percy and the Christian Scandal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And that is the tensional conflict in Percy's Binx Bolling in The Moviegoer.
		What lies behind Percy's limitation of his answer, one suspects, is his sense of membership in that recent intellectual community concerned with man the wayfarer, a community descended most directly from Kierkegaard to that French intellectual who has been much celebrated in the academy as Existentialist.
		Percy implies its inadequacy in calling our attention to the time-span of his novel, "the two or three days at the end of the Mardi Gras season." And the last scene on the last day is an occasion of an epiphany, not only in the Joycean sense, but in the O'Connor sense as well.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9304/articles/montgomery.html (3624 words)

	Pass Christian Books - Walker Percy
		Percy was born in 1916 and spent much of his adolescence in Birmingham.
		In "The Last Gentleman," Percy's second novel, the first sentence is a clue to the story to follow: "One fine day in early summer a young man lay thinking in Central Park." Part of Percy's talent was in his ability to convey ideas, and often several opposing ideas, in an interesting narrative.
		Percy struggled all of his life to assimilate his progressively conservative upbringing by Uncle Will, and generations of eroding traditions, with the reforms and advances that he knew were just and overdue.
	www.passchristianbooks.com /percy.htm (604 words)

	Walker Percy
		Walker Percy was a physician, scientist, contemporary novelist, and philosopher.
		Walker Percy Project - Perhaps the most comprehensive website available on Walker Percy, this organization is devoted to the thought and works of the novelist.
		Walker Percy Papers Inventory - from the Manuscripts Department at the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
	www.kareyperkins.com /percy/percy.html (607 words)

	MWP: Walker Percy (1916-1990)
		A highly respected American author, Walker Percy was renowned for fiction that at once reflected his thoughtful, intellectual positions coupled with a deep moral sense.
		Walker enrolled in the University of North Carolina in 1934, studying chemistry, and entered medical school at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which he received his medical degree in 1941.
		The Sovereign Wayfarer: Walker Percy's Diagnosis of the Malaise.
	www.olemiss.edu /depts/english/ms-writers/dir/percy_walker (551 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Percy, Walker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Percy, Walker PERCY, WALKER [Percy, Walker] 1916-90, American novelist, b.
		Trained as a physician, Percy turned to writing after he contracted tuberculosis and was forced to retire from practice.
		Walker Percy, the Catholic Church, and Southern Race Relations (ca.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/10013.html (335 words)

	Traveling With Walker Percy
		Percy’s father, a highly intelligent and successful lawyer who was prone to deep depression, killed himself in the same manner in 1929, just as Percy was entering his teens.
		Walker and his brothers were taken in and adopted by their enigmatic and well-educated "Uncle Will," their father’s cousin, and a lawyer and author.
		Percy pursued these issues with the belief that the modern novelist is meant to be a sort of "diagnostician," probing and testing the human condition through his literary craft.
	www.carl-olson.com /articles/wpercy_star.html (2351 words)

	Walker Percy: Seer of the "Self"
		Walker Percy was born on May 28th 1916 in Birmingham Alabama.
		Walker Percy is chiefly known as a "philosophical novelist," but his contributions to human thought go well beyond the novels he wrote to include a rather substantial body of literary and scholastic commentary as well.
		Indeed, Percy's non-fiction writings might be said to reveal the elaborate, refined context in which the novelist generated his ideas for his fiction.
	catholiceducation.org /articles/arts/al0202.html (1965 words)

	Walker Percy
		But when you take a look at Walker Percy's life, it's hard not to see his interest in the question of why getting up in the morning is possible, much less necessary, as having some connection to the tragic experiences that shaped his young adult life.
		Percy was born in 1916, in Birmingham, Alabama, the middle of three brothers.
		Percy had spent his recovery from TB in intense reading of literature and philosophy, all of which contributed to his interest in unpacking the mystery of what ailed the human psyche, not just the body.
	www.amywelborn.com /walkerpercy/article.html (1679 words)

	Walker Percy: Diagnostician of the Modern Malaise
		Percy was a seeker in the truest sense of the word.
		And while the "malaise" which Percy writes about is distinctly modern, it is inherently ancient at its core, the cry of man for transcendent truth and meaning.
		Percy talked of his novels as being "diagnostic." In this regard he turned to Aquinas and drew a distinction between art and morality.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/arts/al0129.html (948 words)

	On Walker Percy and Language
		Percy notes Chomsky's failure (Theory 299) and states that "language cannot be explained in the ordinary terminology of explanations.
		Percy, in his usual devious fashion, leaves it up to the reader to discover the creator when he states: "What it is, an 'I,' a 'self,' or some neurophysical correlate thereof, I couldn't begin to say" (Theory 327).
		In another essay, however, Percy clues us in on what he believes to be true by saying that "as soon as one scratches the surface of the familiar and comes face to face with the nature of language, one also finds himself face to face with the nature of man" (Mystery 151).
	theseekerplace.com /articles/percyarticle.html (2440 words)

	Walker Percy at the Conservative Bookstore
		Percy was a great writer whose work tells a good story, but he also had the goal of "refashioning the epistomological basis of our culture".
		Percy is not a hero of the anti-intellectual.
		Walker Percy was orphaned at an early age and was raised by a curmudgeonly plantation owner in the Mississippi Delta.
	www.conservativebookstore.com /y-percy.shtml (239 words)

	The Moviegoer (Walker Percy)
		Walker Percy was born in Alabama in 1916 and lived all of his life in the South.
		He was raised from that point on by an older cousin, a stoic, depressive man whose advice to Percy consisted of quotes from Marcus Aurelius.
		Percy got a degree in medicine, but because of ill health (he contracted tuberculosis during WW2, which was treated more-or-less successfully), he gave up his career as a physician for that of a writer.
	www.grandpoohbah.net /Grandpoohbah/BookReviews/moviegoer.htm (516 words)

	Walker Percy Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Walker Percy was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 28, 1916.
		Two years later, Percy's mother was killed when she drove her car off a country bridge and into a bayou--an accident that Percy later came to consider a suicide.
		Percy's consistent themes were the decline of the old Southern order--with its paternalism, code of honor, and sentimentality--and its succession by the New South: a sterile Hollywood-like pursuit of the American Dream.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/walker-percy (1568 words)

	The Second Coming, Walker Percy
		Percy needed to make neither a living [he had a substantial inheritance from his "Uncle Will," his father's cousin who raised Percy and his brothers after his parents death] or a statement [of his philosophical interests], but a life.
		Percy had come to himself, washed up on a beach; he had to account for the voyage that he had been on when the storm hit and to explore the strange island.
		Walker Percy was not, of course, a lawyer.
	myweb.wvnet.edu /~jelkins/lawyerslit/exercises/percy.htm (3258 words)

	Walker Percy, Mississippi writer
		Some say it was accidental; but young Walker, at the age of fifteen, always suspected she, too, had taken her own life (Benfey 2).
		The Moviegoer, Walker Percy's first novel, is the story of a confused bond salesman and his chaotic life.
		A summary of The Moviegoer by Walker Percy.
	www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Percy.html (1077 words)

	Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments: Happy Birthday Walker Percy
		Walker Percy was an oblate of that house and is buried there.
		Percy along with some other strange companions would lead me back to the Church from my arid and pompous world among those of the Left (including Catholic religious).
		To Percy, and to some of the others, among whom were Merton, and two great Jewish writers, Abraham Heschel and Martin Buber, along with a host of Hasidic rabbis from the 18th and 19th centuries, I made my journey back across the Tiber--to, be it ever so humble, home.
	merecomments.typepad.com /merecomments/2006/05/happy_birthday_.html (1515 words)

	Who is Walker Percy? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Winner of the 1962 National Book Award for his first novel, The Moviegoer, Dr. Percy went on to distinguish himself before his death in 1990 with the publication of five further novels in addition to three non-fiction works dedicated to exploring the peculiar situation that is the human condition.
		Originally trained as a medical doctor, Percy is perhaps most readily comparable in his breadth of thought and creativity to that of the celebrated 19th-century thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson, though differences certainly abound between the two.
		Nevertheless, Percy no doubt will only continue to receive recognition as the world-class thinker and artist that he is to his own time, the late 20th-century.
	www.ibiblio.org /wpercy/who.html (407 words)

	Amazon.com: The Moviegoer (Vintage International): Books: Walker Percy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Percy's family was one of the oldest families in the South and he and his brothers soon found a father figure in the form of his cousin, William Alexander Percy, known affectionately as Uncle Will.
		Three years after his father's suicide, Percy's life was again marked by tragedy when his mother's car went off a bridge, killing her and leaving Walker and his brothers in the charge of his Uncle Will.
		Walker Percy is kind of like Thomas Wolfe, the original Thomas Wolfe..hard to read at times, but also capable, very capable, of sudden phraseology and discription that makes the reader want to stop, say "Wow!," then move on....this is such a book.
	amazon.com /Moviegoer-Vintage-International-Walker-Percy/dp/0375701966 (2662 words)

	Southern Author Walker Percy profiled in Southern Literary Review
		Percy always suspected that his mother had also taken her own life.
		He along with his two brothers moved in with their father's cousin, William Alexander Percy, a writer himself, in Greenville, Mississippi.
		Percy died from cancer on May 10, 1990 at seventy-four years of age.
	www.southernlitreview.com /authors/walker_percy.htm (312 words)

	WALKER PERCY, 1916 - 1990
		Conversations with Walker Percy, edited by Lewis A. Lawson and Victor A. Kramer.
		The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy, edited by Jay Tolson.
		Walker Percy: A Bibliography, 1930-1984, Based on the Collection of the Compiler, Including Books, Pamphlets, Magazines, Journals, Newspapers, etc. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1986.
	www.cas.sc.edu /engl/LitCheck/percy.htm (266 words)

	Walker Percy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Love in the Ruins (1971), Percy dealt allegorically with the redemption of a failed man living through civilization's technological collapse.
		Percy also wrote two nonfiction books, The Message in the Bottle (1975), and Lost in the Cosmos (1983).
		Bibliography: Allen, W. R., Walker Percy (1986); Broughton, P., ed., The Art of Walker Percy (1979); Coles, Robert, Walker Percy: An American Search (1978); Lawson, L., Following Percy (1988); Lawson, L., and Kramer, V., eds., Conversations with Walker Percy (1985); Sweeney, M. K., Walker Percy and the Postmodern World (1987).
	www.gatewayno.com /culture/Percy.html (197 words)

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